Topic: Forum Chat Box

If you're logged into the boards, you're logged into the chat, and you can...you know, chat. With other forumers. We're not sure if we're gonna like having it there or not, and even if we do, what the best way to implement it permanently will be. That's what this week is for. Bug reports, ideas, suggestions, dissensions, all of that.

There are no rules, the law of the forum is the same for the chat. (That said, I myself will be going a little lighter on the profanity in the chat box, just because it's gonna be a first impression for anybody who's visiting the forum for the first time or lurking.)

You're under no obligation to use it, and with the nature of the chatroom being "hey, if you're online, you can say something," there's also no major obligation to announce your arrival or departure. It's just a way to say hi and have minor conversations.

If you end up finding something interesting to talk about, we highly encourage you to make an Off Topic thread about it! The idea here is to be more connected with your fellow forumperson and to promote conversation, not move it over to the chat box. We just thought this might be nifty for folks who are online but don't have anything to add to the current threads. (And talk their way into creating a new one.)

March 4th, 2013: You may now use BBCode in the chat! You should be able to do all of the basic tags such as bold

[b]EXAMPLE[/b]

italics

[i]EXAMPLE[/i]

quotes

[quote=EXAMPLEName]EXAMPLE[/quote]

and URLs.

[url=example]EXAMPLE[/url]

I have adjusted the image tags so that they turn into links to keep the chatbox clean. Enjoy, and let me know if certain tags are breaking the chat or making it unusable.

Re: Forum Chat Box

It's still up, on the bottom of the forum index.

Also, you people are terrible at writing bug reports.

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

Re: Forum Chat Box

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Updated topic.

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Re: Forum Chat Box

Chronic bugs: Duplication of messages. Every now and then, duplicates of messages will show. Not actually updating. - You know what this means. "symbols" not working. Symbols, like Æ, Ø, Å, for instance. Now, I doubt there's use for them, but, you know.

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

Re: Forum Chat Box

Weird.

Edit: Bah, Apple+F5, whatever.

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Re: Forum Chat Box

I've made some improvements to the chat on the user side of things (because unemployment, yay) to make the whole thing less painful to read (at least for me). Since Teague liked the initial idea I've decided to share the user script in case anyone else would find it useful. It should work in Chrome but it has only been tested in Firefox. Sorry

Here's how it looks:

Here's what it does:

- highlights your name in the chat - highlights all links and makes them clickable- adds a little checkbox next to 'Chat Log' which will expand the chat to 600px (or whatever you like) when checked. Useful during longer conversations- adds a 'Mark all as read' link to the top bar. In case punBB keeps on showing old post as unread you can deal with that from the front page.

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Remind me to bake those into the base code so people don't have to install addons for it.

Nifty stuff!

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."

Re: Forum Chat Box

Three months later, I've baked these into the base forum code. Thanks for the help!

"Most people don't even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn't make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants."